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a youth group will have a tough task convincing the city council it needs to ban smoking in public parks in San Luis, Ariz.... council may decide it's easier to let park goers to agree among themselves that smokers will stay downwind from the non-smokers

"Unfortunately we do not have much data available regarding this product. It is not regulated by the FDA," said Dr. Syed Shahryay, a pulmonologist at St. Luke's Medical Center. He said on the surface, electronic cigarettes appear to be a safer alternati

Several Omaha City Council members have introduced an ordinance to adopt an "occupational privilege tax" on tobacco retailers that will equal 7% of the gross receipts from the "sale of tobacco products and any pipe or other device intended for use in con

researchers from the free market think tank R Street Institute created Vapescore.org, an interactive database ranking 52 U.S. cities on their friendliness to vaping. “Our first Vapescore analysis reveals a rapidly developing policy area rife with misinfo

The number of Arizonans who smoke is dropping sharply, and experts are attributing the decline to new laws that limit the use of tobacco and the higher cost of cigarettes. A new federal study shows that about 170,000 of the state's adult residents kicke

The Arizona Department of Health Services says the percentage of smokers as of 2014 was at an all-time low of 15.3 percent. That's down a percentage point from the rate in 2013. Tobacco prevention and cessation

millions of Americans still light up. And a lot of them are the Green Valley crowd.... "Right now, we are very focused on the younger smokers and want to stop them as early as possible," Stumpf said. "It's not that the older smokers should be neglected, b

SHAC needs to start utilizing different mechanisms to attract the attention of college students. A campus-wide smoke-free policy will be difficult enough to enforce, so if the entire student population is not aware of this movement, or in support of it, t